Good Jobs at Christmas Time by Ethel Cook Eliot
A family of a Sunday school teacher on a modest salary gives cash gifts to the Serbian Relief fund and to hospital-bound families instead of personal presents. Relatives learn the value of aid as Mary and John show that earned help can be a true Christmas gift.
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Ethel Cook Eliot
Mary
John
Christ—mas
Isabel
Thomas
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas seen as nuisance in busy family life
The piece notes that the Christmas season is a nuisance as gens think and say it is a time of work and worry. It mentions a father too busy hustling for the family to enjoy a Christmas lounging robe.
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Father
Michigan Cities Sing Carols in Holiday Verse
A playful regional poem lists Michigan towns Albion Alpena Ann Arbor Bad Axe Battle Creek Bay City Beaton Harbor Calumet Climax Constantine Detroit Dowagiac Escanaba Flint Freesoil Gladstone Grand Rapids Houghton Ironwood Jackson Jasper Lansing Monroe Morenci Mt Pleasant Muskegon Negaunee Owosso Painesdale Petoskey Pontiac Port Huron Rapid River Sparta Traverse City Walled Lake Ypsilanti. Father Santa Claus vows to drive his reindeer to America with toys for good girls and boys.
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Albion
Alpena
Ann Arbor
Bad Axe
Battle Creek
Bay City
Beaton Harbor
Calumet
Climax
Constantine
Detroit
Dowigiac
Escamaba
Flint
Freesoil
Gladstone
Grand Rapids
Hancock
Harbor Springs
Holland
Houghton
Ironwood
Jackson
Jasper
Lansing
Monroe
Morenci
Mt. Pleasant
Muskegon
Negauntee
Owosso
Painsdale
Petoskey
Pontiac
Port Huron
Rapid River
Sparta
Traverse
Walled Lake
Ypsilanti
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